Entries from January 2008

January 30, 2008

A Festival of Fun

And food poisoning if you are MOIST.
Yes, MOISTists, your number one supporters group had a touch of Delhi Belly on Monday morning after an exciting Sunday out at the Marinos Festa.
Now, the event wasn’t exactly the best planned. Each player was given a 30 minute slot to sign autographs and have photos taken. This mean [...]

January 26, 2008

New Fixture List Equals 4th Title Shocker?

The complete fixture list for the 2008 J-League and Nabisco Cup has been released this week and has thrown up a deja vu start and finish to the season.
The last time the Marinos won the J-League, way back in 2004, we opened the season at home to the Reds and then went on to pick [...]

January 24, 2008

National Team Call-Ups

Everyone’s favourite 2 time J-League winning manager, Okada Takeshi, has announced his Japan squad for the Kirin Cup games against Chile and Bosnia. Oka-chan has called up the standard two Marinos players, Nakazawa Yuji and Yamase Koji, to the squad.
Yuji is a probable starter but it will be interesting to see if Koji, who played [...]

January 21, 2008

What’s New, Pussycat?

A good question, Woody, a good question. The answer is, lots of things. The past week has seen new fixtures, new numbers and new uniforms. So where to begin?
Let’s go in reverse order and have a look at the new uniforms.  As you may very well know, the Marinos recently sold its soul and switched [...]

January 16, 2008

Comings and Goings

Or, as you will see, Going and Comings. A quick round-up of all the transfer activity since the end of 2007. And it will be pretty quick seeing as not much has happened, although that isn’t to say nothing interesting has happened. Sadly, though, the most time consuming part of this article was finding the [...]

January 10, 2008

MOIST 2007 Season Awards

I think I said, I can’t be bothered to check but you can, that next up would be the comings and goings off the off-season. Well, I changed my mind because we still haven’t signed Ronaldhino and I don’t want to make him big-headed when he comes by giving him a whole post to himself. [...]